January 17 - Thanks, Nesvolds!

Thanks, Nesvolds!

Aunt Tee & Uncle Rodney got us a membership to the Baltimore Zoo! Thanks!

This Day In History

1377

Pope Gregory XI moves the Papacy back to Rome from Avignon.
1584
Bohemia adopts Gregorian calendar.
1806
Thomas Jefferson's daughter, Martha, gave birth to James Madison Randolph, the first child born in the White House.

1912

Captain Robert Falcon Scott reaches the South Pole, one month after Roald Amundsen.
1950
The Great Brinks Robbery – 11 thieves steal more than $2 million from an armored car Company's offices in Boston, Massachusetts.

Famous Birthdays

1706

Benjamin Franklin, American statesman and inventor (d. 1790)

1820

Anne Brontë, British author (d. 1849)
1880
Mack Sennett, Canadian film director (d. 1960)
1886
Glenn Luther Martin, American aviation pioneer
1899
Al Capone, American gangster
1927
Eartha Kitt, American actress and singer (d. 2008)
1931
James Earl Jones, American actor 
1935 
Paul O. Williams, American science fiction author 
1938
John Bellairs, American science fiction & children author